KELLY GERLING, well-known peace and political activist, will discuss how progressives can unite politically to create a formidable third force to challenge the corporate-dominated, money-driven politics that has dominated American governments for the past thirty years. A new political identity is emerging on the American scene. "Progressive" as a political identity is displacing "liberal" with the possibility of a substantive platform rooted in the best of the New Deal, the worldwide Green Party movement, the Green Party USA, the presidential candidacies of Ralph Nader and Dennis Kucinich, new progressive caucuses arising in state Democratic Parties, and the Congressional Progressive Caucus in the Democratic Party. While progressives are united by ideology, they remain divided politically in the two-party US political system. Kelly will discuss how progressives can move beyond the structural impediments that divide us and unite into a force that has the power to usher in a new progressive era in American politics

Monday Night, April 2, 2007 at 7:00 pm
Aquarius Book Store, Upstairs, 3936 Broadway (Please park in back and come up back stairs)